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Announcement from Jundo: NO MORE ZAZEN at TREELEAF! I'm Sick of It!

I QUIT!

I have a confession to make, and have already spoken to Taigu about it, he agrees. Time to face the facts ... and the fat. We both CAN'T TAKE ANOTHER MINUTE OF ZAZEN! Where do I get all the hours back I spent staring at dust balls roll across the floor?

Sorry, but we are OFFICIALLY ENDING ZAZEN SITTING at Treeleaf!

Anybody want to buy 20 used Zafus? Enough is Enough! All meditating has made me is a nervous wreck!

So what do I do now? Now that I've told everyone here I'm leaving home, I guess I'll just keep camping in the back of my car....

Happy April 1!

Deep bows
Yugen

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Please take all my comments with a grain of salt - I am a novice priest and anything I say is to be taken with a good dose of skepticism - Shodo Yugen

Best April fools joke I've seen in a long time. Being new to the group, I went from thinking "this is a funny joke", to "has this guy really cracked". My wife and I laughed through the entire thing. Thanks Jundo. I don't think we can ever laugh enough.

OK, I've been doing this for fifteen + years, does that mean I do another fifteen before I can dance with the tucows >? ( btw, is it zazumba or zazemba; my spell checker is having a meltdown.)
Yesterday was another opening day and I am so glad you're giving up listening to baseball during zazen since it looks like the Yankees are in for a bad year already.
Thank you my friend, may all your sits be good ones,

仁道 生開 - Jindo Shokai "Open to life in a benevolent way"
Just another itinerant monk going nowhere; try somewhere else to listen to someone who really knows.

"Know that the practice of zazen is the complete path of buddha-dharma and nothing can be compared to it....it is not the practice of one or two buddhas but all the buddha ancestors practice this way."
Dogen zenji in Bendowa

Haha, awesome, Jundo!
Zazumba - why didn't I have that idea? Perhaps I can come up with some cool bowing moves and sell a DVD (will post Amazon link when it's available). Working title "The 5 Minute Zazumba Vol. I" ...

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I saw this just now on April 5th. It never struck to me till you said Happy April Fool's Day! Not even when you said today is April 1st.

These were my thoughts:

- This Jundo guy is crazy
- He is really closing this and I trusted him and came here
- What happened to Taigu; I thought atleast he is sane
- Did these guys get some kind of enlightenment and moved to the kind of teachings that non-duality teachers teach (Do nothing, you are already enlightened etc)
- May be Zazen is really waste of time. Nothing is happening for me too